Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ea commerce, like theGreek settlers of old time. In the three provinces of the Capitanata, Terra di Bari, andTerra di Otranto, from the steadily increasing town of Foggia down to Taranto, may bereckoned a number of cities such as Barletta, Trani, Bari, Brindisi, and Lecce, which allstrive with each other for pre-eminence. Under the same degree of latitude as that in which the Puglian plain runs eastwardof the Gulf of Taranto towards the Ionian Sea, the mountains of Calabria begin theircourse to the west of the same gulf. Each of the three provinces of the Ca
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . ea commerce, like theGreek settlers of old time. In the three provinces of the Capitanata, Terra di Bari, andTerra di Otranto, from the steadily increasing town of Foggia down to Taranto, may bereckoned a number of cities such as Barletta, Trani, Bari, Brindisi, and Lecce, which allstrive with each other for pre-eminence. Under the same degree of latitude as that in which the Puglian plain runs eastwardof the Gulf of Taranto towards the Ionian Sea, the mountains of Calabria begin theircourse to the west of the same gulf. Each of the three provinces of the Calabrias(citeriore, and ulteriore first and second) is marked off by an isolated mass of this 3 K 2 436 ITALY. mountain chain, the centre one of which is the great mysterious range of the Forest ofSila. And Calabria is the most interesting part of all the south ! It rises stern and wild, bold and defiant, torn and jagged with a thousand inaccessiblemountain valleys, girdled by the Tyrrhene and Ionian seas, guarded like a fortress by. RUINS OF THE ABBEY OF THE HOLY TRINITY, VENOSA. many a rocky cape and headland which advances boldly into the blue waves. In thewinter and spring the waters of the Crati, Amato, Corace, Niete, and Metramo hastenthrough the narrow rocky valleys to end their short course in the neighbouring sea;whilst in summer their wide beds are dry and dusty. The same blue heaven smiles hereas above the Campagna Felice, the laurel and myrtle bloom,—but the Calabrian landscapeis silent, almost sullen. Sullenly the poverty-stricken inhabitants gather the gifts whichthe sun and the rain and the dews bestow on them. These gifts are so numerous thatthey might fill the country with prosperity and riches and happiness; and yet throughoutCalabria poverty weeps in the valleys and on the hills, or else embarks in foreign shipsand departs for America. The province is becoming depopulated ; and yet nowhere isthere more need for agricultural labour. LUCANIA, APULIA, AND CALAB
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